Cum Platonem audimus Palladem et amorem philosophos deos uocantem, ita intelligamus, ut amor sit philosophus ratione uiae, Pallas ratione termini.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22358
English
Plato speaks of Pallas and Love as philosopher-gods; take this to mean that Love earns the name philosopher through the road travelled, and Pallas through the destination reached.
Sense checked against farmer1998:22411; no further crux.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22411; awaiting human check
Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses
Discussed in
Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
Mention records in the corpus: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).
Farmer's cross-references
2.12Beatitudo est essentialiter in actu intellectus.
5>15Per extremorum et medii rationem cognoscere possumus conuenienter uniuersi gradus sic in quinque posse diuidi: In super ens, uere ens, non u